Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Ketcham Bill instructing the Department of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information on agricultural production, competition and demand in foreign countries, to promote the sale of American farm products abroad, and to enable the American farmer to adjust his crops to world needs...
Many medical men, as tribute to Fichera, have undertaken to collect funds for a cancer institute in Milan, where his discoveries can be developed...
Weicker made public a series of memos which he said showed the systematic abuse of the IRS, starting with the creating in 1969 of a secret task force to collect tax information on activist groups...
...Secretariat was instructed to collect suggestions for extending the principles of the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference...
...Associated Press states that the plan calls for the collection from Germany of progressively mounting sums over a five-year period. The plan fixes an annual minimum (amount unspecified) and provides means for its collection from: 1) Excise taxes on monopolies, such as matches, spirits, tobacco. There is to be no Allied supervision of collection of these taxes. Evidently it is felt that the Germans cannot ignore the easiest method of taxation that lies at any Government's hand. The Allies will only take a portion, so that the incentive to collect will be left untouched...